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Art: Gubbio celebrates meeting of Italian and Omani ceramics

(ANSAmed) - GUBBIO (PERUGIA), MAY 18 - Gubbio celebrates the
meeting of artistic ceramics of Italy and Oman. Seven Italian
artists and seven Omani among ceramicists, painters,
photographers, will live together for two weeks in a villa of
the Umbrian hillsides, exchanging techniques, styles and
artistic vision.

The creations born from this meeting of two cultures will be
shown between June 23 and July 7 in the ''Oman in Gubbio -
Connecting Cultures through Ceramic Art'' exhibition in the
Arengo Hall in Palazzo Consoli and in Piazza Grande just next to
the exhibition building.

''It is an extraordinary artistic event, and at the same time
an exhibition and experiment'' commented the curator of the
show, Ettore Sannipoli. I don't exclude that the protagonists
might be able to develop new techniques or languages, sharing
their experiences of art and creativity imagined not only as a
meeting but potentially as a synthesis between two great
cultures of ceramic, the Italian one and the Omani one.

From June 23 for three days the public will be able to enter
directly into contact with the protagonists under a great Omani
tent mounted for the occasion in Piazza Grande. The Italian
artists are all Umbrian: three from Gubbio, two from Gualdo
Tadino, one from Deruta and one from Orvieto. The event has been
promoted by the Gubbio Council with the patronage of the Embassy
of the Sultanate of Oman in collaboration with the local
business associations and Lubna Zawawi, Chairman and founder of
the Wolf Group of Companies. The whole city of Gubbio will be
involved: Oman will be the focus on lessons in school and fusion
menus proposed by some restaurants in addition to Omani style
coffee sets put on sale for the occasion in shops in the
historical centre. (ANSAmed).